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We had a chance today to hear Alien: Isolation's Creative Director
talk about making the game and got to see some prototype footage of
some very early builds. The most surprising bit of info that came
out of the talk was the fact that in its initial stages, the game
was third, not first, person:

The game resembles traditional Survival Horror games (Resident
Evil, Dead Space etc.) a lot more strongly in third person, and the
heavy cover mechanics give it an almost Gears of War feel. So why
did they back away from this design choice?

The team had several reasons, citing that the third person
perspective made the player feel like they were controlling an
avatar instead …

I have been aware of the existence of the ALIEN films
since I was young, thanks to the Great Movie Ride at Hollywood
Studios in Walt Disney World. I used to be absolutely terrified of
the ride's ALIEN segment, but on one trip, I managed keep my
eyes open long enough to catch a glimpse of the film's titular
monster. I loved its design. I had never seen anything like it
before. Over the next several years, I became very interested in
the ALIEN films and how they were made; alas, I was too
young to see them.

Things remained this way until my twentieth birthday, which took
place on February 19, 2015; on this day, my parents gave me the
ALIEN Quadrilogy DVD box set, and I dove into the films as
soon as I could. Now was my chance to see them. At last I …

You know, after researching the Fire and Stone comic book series
that came out recently, which I still haven't read, I thought, it
could be an interesting idea to do an Aliens, Predator, and Aliens
vs. Predator shared universe. I mean, Marvel did a good job with
their shared universe, DC is trying to catch up with them, even the
friggin Universal Studios Monsters is getting a shared universe
starting with Dracula Untold, which I think is lame.

I mean, it doesn't have to be as big as Marvel, I mean, I
sometimes mostly think the two series should be separated, but
somewhat connect. Like Predator doesn't need Alien references or
vice versa, I mean Alien and Predator were their own franchises
before they crossed over and people shouldn't forget…

You can't kill it. Alien is coming back to the big screen
with filmmaker Neill Blomkamp, who worked briefly on the
thought dead Alien: Xeno movie, in the director's chair.

Details of the currently untitled movie are still under wraps,
but it's safe to assume that the story will be similar to what the
District 9 filmmaker personally concepted and showed off in
a batch of images he recently posted online.

Blomkamp's posts got Alien superfans excited and apparently
caught the attention of decision-makers at 20th Century Fox, who
quickly worked out a deal to resurrect the project and sign
Blomkamp. He took to Instagram earlier today to announce the
project.

According to The Wrap , the new film's story is set after the
events of Prometheus 2, which is st…

This is a very short story about the colonial marines I wrote
one evening, It's heavily based on Aliens Colonial Technical Manual
by Lee Brimmicombe-Wood, and introduces some of its facts,
equipment and characters, plus ones I imagined or assumed.

Corporal Adam "Moose" Rakunas finished his duty before dusk and
sighted. he spent all the 3 hours of the evening laying a mine
field in an aleatory pattern and then covering some parts of the
field with mounds of bunny drop. The corporal knew that bunnies
activated the sensitive anti personnel mines but not the anti tank
mines, so his company has been using this to their a…

You know, I've been thinking about how bad the Alien Colonial
Marines game tanked and feel bad about all the potential it had, it
was all about what all Aliens fans want, to be a Colonial Marine
like Hudson, Hicks, and Vazquez.

Is it possible they can give it another chance? Different
developers, different story, nicer graphics, and most of all,
better gameplay. Instead of it being a shoot'em up, maybe make it
survival horror with action and strategy, like Resident Evil 4. I
mean, that's the best I got. Is it possbile to get the Colonial
Marines right and try one more time? Can it be redeemed?

really suprised how stephen kings dream catcher is'nt mentioned
in the "did you know?" trivia, the "alien virus" is refered to as
"ripley" by the soldiers, as col curtis/kurtz (film/book) puts it
"well because, well......you know" this information can be found on
the dreamcatcher (novel) wikki not yet on imdb nor is there video
of it, i may change both of those things

We don't really have barnstars or anything else for this to my
knowledge but some members deserve to have their tireless yearly
efforts acknowledged. To this end, I created this blog.

While there has been a few members that in the past that could
have qualified, this blog is starting with 2014.

Members of the year for 2014 are Toa Quarax and Leigh Burne.

Gentlemen, your contributions have been immensly helpful and you
both helped turn this wiki around, I hardly recognize it from when
I first saw it (which was really bad). With the efforts of
Nightmarizard, Ultimatex, Troopdude, Bman and myself, we managed to
improve the wiki a little bit but not to the extent you guys did,
plus due to their personal lives and situations, the admins became
ina…

Leigh burne has already made a review about this game and has
pretty much said what needs to be said but I will add my own
perspective and I will be discussing the negatives that people and
critics have mentioned.

First I will start by pretty much mirroring Leigh by saying this
is probably indeed the best Alien game ever, even comparing it to
Aliens versus Predator 2, a game I love! I would say the game is
much more scarier and better than the Marine campaign with the
Alien acting like a true Alien. No other Alien game is its equal,
not even the crossovers Aliens versus Predator 1 & 2, which
were noted for being scary back in the day but it is not even close
to Alien: Isolation. Creative assembly needs to give themselves a
pat on the back f…

I wanted to try and do a spoiler-free review for this, but given
the nature of the story and the points I want to raise about it,
that would basically be impossible.

First, the good — I thought this was easily the best book of the
trilogy. Some readers may not like the fact that there are
literally no Aliens until around the halfway point, but personally
I thought this was a good move. The first half takes its time
setting up colony life and introducing us to the major players, and
it pleasantly reminded me of the world-building Moore did at the
beginning of Alien: Sea of Sorrows, which I thought was the
strongest part of that book. Russ, Anne, Timmy and Newt are handled
well, and Brackett was a decent enough (if perhaps a little bland)
hero…

Having now finished , I have to say, it's probably the best
Alien game I've ever played (although note I've never played
fan favourite Aliens versus Predator 2).

My main worry prior to playing was that the game wouldn't manage
to successfully drag out it's only-one-enemy scenario to a decent
length without getting boring. Happily those concerns were allayed.
The game throws in enough varied scenarios to keep it feeling fresh
(as well as the big twist just over halfway through that reveals
there are more than one Alien). It also mixes it up by
making its Seegson androids a serious threat later in the game,
with the added bonus that they make for very different opponents to
the Alien — they're less immediately deadly, they're less mobile,
and the…

I have been thinking about what kind of Alien/Predator movies
that wee need to see inorder to actually make Prometheus and AvP
and all the other films make sense. So I have a list of ideas
that I think would be perfect for Fox to make. Hell, if any
execituves from Fox reads this they can copy the ideas and not give
me a fucking dime since they all make sense and would be intersting
to see.

A Predator film in space. Come on, we all want to see this
happen.

Colonial Marines vs. Predator. Nuff fucking said.

Would involve a group of mercenaries hearing Shaw's warning
signal she left at the end on Prometheus and going to the planet to
investigate, and instead of finding anything worth while, they find
the Deacon.

7.dedicated area too the Alien's earth hive trilogy being the
actual film

6.how it could have been worse

key

WY=weyland-yutani

s=sidenote

1.Alien 3 had many diffrent variations,from the stupid alien
virus,in which by the way there is a xenomorph chicken!There is
one with it being on a prison but with WY(weyland-yutani)
experimenting on the prisoners.There is one with monks and a wooden
planet.One where NO JOKE xeno's can take over tech WTF.Some of them
are good like the one involving monks,the Xeno experiments are
okay.but I prefer that kept to the expanded universe.But I am
so…

Scar face you could say IS THE most badass predator of all time
with tons of trophies and kills also restoring his position.he has
wiped tons of crime organizations off the map killed the most
dangourus things in the city at the time it be a Jamaican mutant or
a abomdible human yatjua hybrid.He has so many weapons,all of great
quality he vocal mimics all the time which he does ironiclly in
some cases mocking his prey and destroying lots of xenomorphs too
bad fox isn't smart enough. Damn as I writing this I might work for
fox one day and get the record straight before a company steals the
franchise,I actually wish a great dream ACM live action series with
no CG and one episode per month due to time

Over the course of this francise it has
constantly,questioned,conterdicted it's own canon to the point
where.Well lets be honest made it a maze here is a small
list of all the things that are unknown or argued about

1st alien ressurection (which it's title is so ironic)

1.says that wal-mart bought weyland

a.non canon consider this a ploy to gain ripley 8's trust

2.the xenos were wiped out

a.non canon why? because they used that to also gain her trust
and the novel that was a sequel dispproved that.

2nd Avp(the movie)

1.says that predators hunted xenos on earth long ago and
collaberated which ancient
nations(aztecs,mayans,egyptians)

a.canon because it makes sense and there is no reason to
complain and if memory serves,the xenomorphs were on ear…

Having had a chance to play a bit of , here are some early
thoughts. This isn't a full review, because truth is this game is
hard, so I'm not even halfway through it yet.

Most importantly, is this game a scary, thrilling Alien
experience?

Yes. Good God, yes. Even before the Alien shows up, it's
terrifying. The lighting and sound design is perfect. One of
the best bits is when you first wake up on the Torrens at
the very beginning and have a look around, and each time you enter
a new corridor all the lights in the walls flicker on exactly as
they did in Alien. They've nailed the aesthetic.

What about the Alien itself?

One scary mofo. He is a terrifying presence, simply because if
he sees you, he ends you. It's as simple as that. In fact,
sometimes y…

I've decided to novelise Aliens: Colonial Marines. I'm going to
change the story a bit and get rid of the "Do this, kill that" feel
from the game. I'm also going to give the marines the same weapons
from the film to keep it around the same time. I'm also going to
expand some of the marines background stories and add some
background to the new Xenomorphs that appeared in the game. I will
also add how some of the Marines got their nicknames.

There have been two alternative reproduction cycles that have
appeared in the movies that show how individual xenomorphs can
reproduce without the need for a Queen: -The directors cut of
Alien: There is a famous scene (deleted from the theatrical
release) which shows Ripley discovering a barely-alive Captain
Dallas and the body of Brett. They have been cocooned by the
xenomorph, and are both mutating into one of the original eggs
capable of creating a facehugger. This shows that a single
xenomorph can use a victim for food and/or to continue the egg
-> facehugger -> chestburster -> xenomorph -> egg life
cycle. -Aliens vs Predator: Requiem: The Predalien (a
xenomorph born from a Predator) is shown in this movie to have the
unique ability to …

Planet of the Vampires (Italian: Terrore nello spazio) is
a 1965 Italian/Spanish science fiction horror film directed
by Mario Bava.Two huge interplanetary ships on an expedition into
deep uncharted space receive a distress signal emanating from Aura,
an unexplored planet. Both ships, the Galliott and the Argos,
attempt to land on the surface of the fog-encased world. While
entering the planet's atmosphere, the crew of the Argos
becomes possessed by an unknown force and try to violently kill
each other.Only Captain Markary (Sullivan) has the will to
resist, and is able to force all of the others aboard his ship
out of their hypnotic, murderous state. Debuted on the very
same day of Lost in Space‘s. Film's narrative details and
visual desi…

A well-known easter egg from Predator 2 is the presence of Alien
skull in trophy case on the Predator ship. Aside from a couple
human skulls, there are 4 others. Probably to show that
Predators are not just predators of men, but whole galaxy. They
travel the stars looking for "great hunt". It was also a nod to the
Dark Horse Aliens vs. Predator comics wich were quite popular at
the time. Idea came from Stephen Hopkins. Since Fox had own the
Alien film series, it was easy to obtain the rights to
use the Alien head in the film. This excelled popularity of the
Aliens vs. Predator series crossover troughout the 1990s, and was
promptly followed by more comic books, novels, video games, toys
and eventually movies.

Quarax's Real Parts Aliens M314 Motion Tracker
Assembly Guide is an X-part guide on building a replica of the
M314 Motion Tracker seen in Aliens out of all the same parts
that were used to make the props for film, or the most accurate
alternatives.

The keypad on the right side of the Motion Tracker is made from
a part of the keypad of a Casio SL-85. It is not the similar Casio
SL-80, as the SL-80 is too large. As one has never been examined in
detail, it is also possible the keypad was made from a Casio
SL-8.

The grill appears to be from a Superswitch Intruder Alarm
Catalogue Number 6000, which is better known as the base for the
TNR lamp props. This would make sense, as the part with the grill
was removed to …

It's all about a Predator dispatched to a planet to stop Weyland
Yutani from cloning Predators. While on the planet, a smart
Xenomorph Warrior/Drone releases a dozen facehuggers and warriors
to find the Queen that's trapped on the planet. The Predator also
discovers that a fellow clan has gone rogue and is using the cloned
Predators as hosts for Predaliens. Also a human medical ship
arrives on the planet.

What do you think the title of the story should be? What do you
think about the story?

I am currently making a novelisation on Aliens Vs Predator
Requiem. I know what many of you will be thinking, but it may help
explain some of the flaws in the movie. I have never written a
novelisation of anything before but it should prove interesting. If
you have any advice please leave it in the comments section below.
Thanks.

Unlike my Out of the Shadows review, I'm going to keep
this spoiler free because I got through it so quickly.

I liked this more than the previous book (the pointless Ripley
presence really did bug me), and it was a very enjoyable read. I
appreciated how it took some time to develop the world before
hitting us with the Xenomorphs, I felt like Out of the
Shadows threw us straight into the thick of it too quickly.

Perhaps the only major negative I took from it was that the
second half was a little repetitive. Aliens attack, some people
die, the rest move on, repeat, repeat, repeat. That exact scenario
must have happened twenty times. It didn't really help that we
don't really get to know any of the survivors beyond the three or
four core players. L…

At the Alien: Isolation booth the game was available for
play in a massive Alien Egg that housed a chair and video screen.
It looked like the door closed while visitors played and the green
light from the floor was the only light you see.

Several items were given away at the booth (especially to
cosplayers), including a Dark Horse Alien: Isolation comic,
T-shirt featuring a toy robot, Alien: Isolation-themed bag,
the same patch given at E3, and DLC.

An app was also released (and soon removed) to mimic the game's
motion tracker that guided users to the location of the game's
booth while at SDCC. It also has a Photo Booth feature to customize
photos with art from the game.

So, I was a bit confused when I saw Clive Curtis said he worked
on Alien on his website as a stuntman, since the only
stuntmen that worked on Alien I knew of was Eddie Powell and
Roy Scammell, so I sent him an email, thinking I wouldn't receive a
response, but this was in my inbox today:

The end sequence of the film was to be a big fight scene between
The Alien and Yaphet Kotto, whom I doubled. However, after shooting
the sequence, the powers to be decided not to use it for fear of
upstaging the image of the alien bursting from the person’s chest,
thus it was not used.

I'm curious (again). Has anyone heard anything about the
possiblity of a neca produced 7 inch Royce, or Mike Harrigan? I
haven't seen anything (I found out about a neca Bishop!), but
thought others might have. Anyway, Thank You!

I'm just curious. I've seena all of the Alien movies, several
times, and my favotite character is Hicks (which is one reason
Alien 3 isn't one of my favorite movies to watch). After reading
the article on him (I'm not the most knoledgable about video games
and their stories, but I'm trying!) and found out that in Aliens:
Colonial Marines game in "Stasis Interupted" that he survived the
fate he was seemingly handed in Alien 3.

My question is if his survival is cannon with the rest of the
Alien franchise; is he truly considered to be alive?

it was less then staller game and in the industry there is still
money to be made 2 or 4 years of development and fox and a well
known fps company like Bethesda gearbox is no longer trustable on
any franchise besides borderlands in the end if they had done ACM
right it would have made millions more than borderlands 2 due to it
being able to attract non gamers any almost every single fan to it
the ALIEN franchise can make a lot and it seems creative assembly
is taking advantage of that and Rebellion also did they too can
still make money with the comic like storyline being continued from
their 2010 title. to put it simple a good aliens game will make a
lot of money and dlc too skin dlc story dlc, maybe even releasing
novel as prequels to th…

Here's some of the stuff being done for the 35th anniversary of
(released in 1979).

35 years later, fans are still “screaming” in space as Twentieth
Century Fox Consumer Products celebrates the 35th anniversary of
the groundbreaking film ALIEN, one of the most enduring sci-fi
horror franchises of all time, with multiple iconic partners for
exclusive branded merchandise available worldwide.

National Entertainment Collectibles Association (NECA), an
entertainment conglomerate and global leader in licensed consumer
goods, in association with Fox Consumer Products, announces today
the first-ever action figures of Lieutenant Ellen Ripley that
feature the likeness of actress Sigourney Weaver, who was nominated
for an Oscar® and Golden Globe® for …

Hello everybody. So Alien: Isolation is coming out soon
and I think it is going to be a very cool game. The reason I
made this blog was to ask you what you think about the new game and
the last one, Aliens: Colonial Marines. So here are some
questions you can answer if you'd like:

Is Amanda Ripley-McClaren a good choice as the main
character?

Is one alien a good idea?

Do you think this game will be scary?

Did you like Aliens: Colonial marines?

From what we know about the story, do you think it's a good
idea?

Will you buy this game when it comes out?

Is there anything you really hope this game will include?

So if you want you can answer these questions and share your
thoughts on this upcoming game!

I finished reading Alien: Out of the Shadows last night,
so here's my thoughts on it.

If I'm honest, I was pretty disappointed. It was certainly
written well enough, yet the story didn't really do anything for
me. It seemed to want to copy the mystery of by having this huge
underground extraterrestrial spacecraft loaded with Eggs, but it
just came off as a cheap copy of what we get in the first film. The
new characters Lebbon introduced were also pretty bland. Hoop was
the only one who was developed even slightly, the rest just faded
into obscurity and as a result I found it difficult to care when
they died.

But by far the biggest problem I had was with the stupid
inclusion of Ripley. Why was she in the book at all? Her presence
added nothing …

]] So, I was going to do a Pulse Rifle first, but ended up doing
this first because it's less expensive (not true anymore). Right
now I'm still trying to locate some parts. I'd be nice if I
could incorporate some electronics too, but that would probably be
a bit too hard (and expensive) for me. Gathering all the parts is
probably going to take forever :(.